As a part time professional poker player my history is very similar to a lot of the fellow early 30-somethings I meet in this industry that play either part time or full time for their income. We all started out playing Stud before the Hold’em boom, and then migrated over to No Limit Hold’em as soon as the Moneymaker Effect took over the entire United States at large. We all jumped on Party Poker or PokerStars and decided to grind out (of all things) low stakes Sit & Gos. From there almost universally all of us moved to cash game poker where we’ve all carved out a nice bit of coin grinding out a modest win-rate at the low and medium stakes. All of us remember the days when we all had great win-rates at cash games or amazing ROI numbers for Sit & Gos when the UIGEA was not in effect and the global economy hadn’t done its best impersonation of the Buffalo Bills in the Super Bowl (that’d be a nosedive). In effect, the No Limit Hold’em games are frankly a lot harder than they used to be and good players just have less of an edge than ...